FINALE WATCH: The final two contestants are sent to Vegas on the Season 11 finale of “Hell’s Kitchen” (Fox at 8 p.m.), where they must compete in a live cooking challenge, as well as a dinner-service test, before one is crowned champion.

The royal baby craze continues with a pair of specials, kicking off with “A Royal Family: E! News Special” (E! at 8), which goes into detail about the tiny prince’s life as experts and friends of the palace speculate about what it will be like. Later, OWN airs the 90-minute “William, Kate & the Royal Baby” (at 9), looking at Will and Kate’s love story and how they handle being modern royals.

The “Big Brother” (CBS at 9) producers put the competitors’ fate in viewers’ hands; for the first time in years, the audience at home has a say in who could be sent home on the eviction episode.

SERIES PREMIERE: Very athletic couple Sanya Richards-Ross (Olympic gold medalist in track and field) and Aaron Ross (cornerback for the New York Giants) land their own reality show on WE tv, after being featured on the network’s “Platinum Weddings.” On “Sanya’s Glam & Gold” (at 10), Sanya helps run her family’s hair salon in Austin — in the premiere, she takes her relatives on vacation to Jamaica.

Andy and Sam face the awkward task of working together again on “Rookie Blue” (ABC at 10), while the team investigates a missing person and realizes the crime could be connected to a previous case.

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Looking at this summer’s lineup is a little like arriving at your favorite vacation spot and noticing that the shave-ice shack burned down over the winter. In any event, most of us are just here so we can get a good spot for the real fireworks: “Breaking Bad” starts its last season Aug. 11. Here’s my annual quick-hit guide to what looks interesting.

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Looking at this summer’s lineup is a little like arriving at your favorite vacation spot and noticing that the shave-ice shack burned down over the winter. In any event, most of us are just here so we can get a good spot for the real fireworks: “Breaking Bad” starts its last season Aug. 11. Here’s my annual quick-hit guide to what looks interesting.

The KillingThe show’s stars look just as shocked as you are that this moody, elongated crime series is back for another season. The engaging and corrective return episode set Linden and Holder (the superb Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman) off on a grisly new serial-killer case, in which a death-row inmate (rejoice, pirates — it’s Peter Saaaaarrrrrsgaaaaard) might not be the one responsible for beheading his wife. I’m half-happy the show is back and hope it doesn’t violate parole. Sundays at 9 p.m. on AMC.Frank Ockenfels/AMC

It’s a “Saturday Night Live” reunion as Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph get together on “Hollywood Game Night” (NBC at 10), along with network stars Sean Hayes and Dax Shepard.

RETURNING SHOWS: Adult Swim brings back its comedy block Thursday night, beginning with the fifth season of “Childrens Hospital” (Cartoon Network at midnight), as the doctors are relocated to a clinic on an Army base in Japan. Later on “NTSF:SD:SUV::” (at 12:15 a.m.), the police procedural parody continues to fight crime in San Diego.

Talk-show host Regis Philbin is on “The Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS at 11:35 p.m.), along with ventriloquist Terry Fator.

Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS and the CW announced the new television shows coming to these networks this fall last week. Michael J. Fox, Blair Underwood, Sean Hayes and Andy Samberg return to the small screen, while J.J. Abrams and Bill Lawrence put their creative powers behind two new shows.

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New shows — including Fox’s “Rake,” starring Greg Kinnear, and CW’s “The 100,” about post-apocalyptic teens — join a number of fall 2013 premieres at mid-season.

CW: “The 100”A refreshingly taut and well-executed futuristic sci-fi series about a group of 100 jailed juvenile delinquents who are banished from an orbiting space-station colony and sent to live on Earth — 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse. They’ve barely crash-landed when things get pretty “Lord of the Flies,” but a determined young woman (Eliza Taylor) tries her best to stick to the group’s real mission. Grade: A-Cate Cameron/CW

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